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The MOVE Fire

This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985 Philadelphia police fired thousands of rounds at the MOVE house, city officials approved dropping an explosive device on the roof, the resulting fire was allowed to burn, 11 people—including five children—died, and 61 homes were destroyed. Philadelphia City Council later called it a “brutal attack carried out by the City of Philadelphia on its own citizens” and acknowledged that no individual faced criminal consequences for the bombing. One timeline correction worth preserving for the BHP record: the major previous MOVE-police confrontation was August 8, 1978, about seven years before the bombing, not a year or two earlier. Officer James Ramp was killed, other police and firefighters were wounded, nine MOVE members were later convicted, and television cameras recorded police beating Delbert Africa during his arrest. The 1985 MOVE Commission later specifically criticized city planners for failing to adequately use lessons from that 1978 confrontation. And that actually strengthens the point you’re making: 1985 did not happen without precedent or institutional memory. There had already been a deadly confrontation with MOVE, years of conflict, negotiations and police involvement before Osage Avenue.

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Shirley Chisholm — Unbought and Unbossed

In 1968 Shirley Chisholm became the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress. In 1972 she launched a campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, breaking another political barrier.

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Tooncan

Tooncan Productions Inc.
FormerlyTooncan Productions, Inc.(1994-2004)
TypeAnimation studio
Founded1994; 31 years ago
Defunct2014; 11 years ago
FateClosed
Headquarters,
Canada
Key peoplePaul Cadieux (co-founder)
ServicesAnimation production
SubsidiariesProduction Champion (defunct)

Tooncan was an animation studio based in Montreal, Quebec founded by Paul Cadieux.[1] The company worked on TF1's The Bellflower Bunnies and Sylvain Chomet's The Triplets of Belleville.[1]

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  1. ^ a b Thomas, Holly E. (2007, June 17). Children's DVDs: Small-Screen Summer. The Washington Post. Retrieved March 29, 2008.

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Tooncan

Tooncan was an animation studio based in Montreal, Quebec founded by Paul Cadieux. The company worked on TF1's The Bellflower Bunnies and Sylvain Chomet's The Triplets of Belleville.

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Tupu (TV series)

Tupu is a Canadian-French 2D animated television series, co-produced by the French animation studio Xilam and the Canadian animation studio Tooncan, directed by Xavier Giacometti, featuring the adventures of a redheaded girl named Tupu, with the fictional New York mayor's son, Norton in New York, focusing in Central Park. One season was produced, consisting of twenty-six episodes.

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Spaced Out

Spaced Out (known in French as Allô la Terre, ici les Martin) is an animated series, co-produced by Alphanim, Tooncan Productions and Cartoon Network Europe, in association with several other companies and television networks. The series had one season with 26 episodes. The series aired on Cartoon Network in Europe.

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Rotten Ralph

Rotten Ralph is a series of children's picture books written by Jack Gantos and illustrated by Nicole Rubel. About twenty Rotten Ralph books have been published from 1976 to 2011. Rotten Ralph is also the first book in the series, a 32-page picture book published by Houghton Mifflin of Boston in 1976. It was the first published book for both Gantos and Rubel. Alternatively, Rotten Ralph is the title character of the series, initially "a very very nasty cat" —a bright red domestic cat who enjoys playing mean, practical jokes on his human family. There was a children's television series by Cosgrove Hall Films, Tooncan Productions and Italtoons Corporation based on the books, first broadcast on CBBC from 1998 to 2001. It also went to air on Nickelodeon in the UK too, around 2000. The show hasn't been aired in the UK since reruns ended in 2005. The show aired in the United States on the Fox Family Channel from 1999 to 2001.

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TOPIC OF THE DAY

Greenwood / Black Wall Street

Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.

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TRIVIA QUESTION OF THE DAY

What prosperous Tulsa district became widely known as “Black Wall Street”?

The Greenwood District.